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Interesting that you mention this as this is a topic I learned today in Numerical Linear Algebra: Krylov subspace methods.

I had to implement the Haversine distance for a data mining home work as well. We were given a list of the worlds capitals and we had to use openstreetmap api to get the latitudes and longitudes.

Then we had to implement hierarchical agglomerative clustering by hand, only using the dendrogram function from scikit-learn.

The kicker is the robocallers now use phone numbers which match the first six of your own number (area code and first 3 digits). When I was in the process of interviewing with a company and therefore waiting for phone calls, this was incredibly frustrating.

I wholeheartedly agree. I went to a community college for 1 year before transferring to a top regional technical university. The upshot was I obtained a $14k/year scholarship for transfer students just for getting a 3.7 GPA. I would not have been accepted right out high school, and I had the privilege of avoiding dorms.

I just setup the Pi Hole yesterday on the raspberry pi I had sitting on my shelf and I must say it is a god send.

The bonus is my girlfriend noticed the coloring app on iOS she uses doesn't have banner ads and after she's done with a picture, there is no longer popup advertisements.

I only had to make one whitelist so far and it was graph.instagram.com otherwise the app completely doesn't work.

Wow I havent checked up on Minetest in years!

I'll consider making a Minetest version, but I'd have to review their Lua modding api to see if it'd be feasible.

Thanks

That is certainly an option we'd like to support. The temperature thresholds and effects will be configurable, loaded from a file into memory.

The sample damages I provided are mostly for illustration so development can have some guidance.

Yeah that was hastily put together. I updated the readme with a real table for readability.

Acid Rain was more of less one of the suggestions I've gotten from players on the server I frequent.

You are right though, we should keep things entirely factually accurate. I removed the acid rain section and scratched the plans to implement it.

Yeah I think sequestering carbon in decoration, blocks, or items is okay.

Burning a tree however should incur some penalty, after all - wildfires are a positive feedback loop in reality and it'd be trivial to detect.

Might have to deviate from the idea that the global carbon score is the sum of everyones individual carbon score, since there will certainly be lots of events which contribute CO2 without player intervention.

Thanks!

Preventing industrial farm abuse is an outstanding issue. I think penalizing bonemeal usage might work, since keeping track of all planted trees and calculating their footprint is a very expensive task. If players have to sit and let the sapling grow on it's own, I think industrial farms might not be overpowering.

I appreciate the ideas, I will definitely look to incorporate them!

One of my current challenges is coming up with a balanced model, since I dont have any real server player data to analyze. Of course it will be configurable, but i'd like for the default models not spiral to a destroyed world quickly...

It will be a challenge to efficiently implement all of the in-game mechanics, especially to unloaded chunks. My ideas so far are to apply most of the effects once a chunk is reloaded, but I could also queue some changes to be applied later - even reloading the chunk to make some changes.

Yeah I think a good way to keep things realistic is for the offsets to be fulfilled by other players. If someone is too busy generating in-game currency, they can just pay newer players or those looking for money to plant lots of trees.

Unfortunately it does not support Education Edition, but you make a good point in that this could be a great teaching tool. I have a good bit of Climate Change related content that I can try to integrate more into the game play itself.

I'll add education edition support to my roadmap. Thanks!

> and the new Atari CEO (a guy from the tobacco firm Philip Morris -- I forget his name -- who spent the whole meeting chain smoking).

Is this the guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Morgan

Usually when the speed limit bumps up from 55 to 65, it means the stretch of highway is actually more safe. Whether it is a long straight away with few on/off ramps, or the end of construction - the jump in speed limit usually does correspond to the level of safety of the upcoming stretch of roadway.

> As an aside, I cannot tell you how angry our direct-to-consumer drug advertisements make me. Especially the ones that are marketed to people with terminal diseases offering them hope (but in the small print offering perhaps 3 months longer life, not guaranteed).

After reading an related article (http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/) a few weeks ago, it's no surprise that the market has answered the calls of those who really do want doctors to do everything and anything to prolong their loved ones lives. The selling point for these medications are hope, and I agree that it'd be sensible to regulate advertisements so consumers can truly weigh the benefits versus the costs before they in an emotional state.

One guy near the exit did and he got plowed over.

Aren't the devices connected to some iCloud account or an equivalent software device lock?

Unless they gut the existing hard drives, can they really even flip these devices? Find My Mac might foil their plans.

Thank you for linking these. Extremely compelling articles that everyone ought to read and consider.

Yeah that dude who wouldn't move out was from the same town I grew up in and whenever I read the local news lately his story is always top news.

As you might expect, a story like that generates a lot of user engagement.. tons of comments and replies.

Best Buy refused to price match Phillips Hue bulbs for me because they were apparently a "prime" only price.

Made no sense for me to pay more ($20 across 4 bulbs) to get them that day in person.

These findings are consistent with another NYT article posted almost a year ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/29/climate/south...

The melting arctic ice sheets cause an influx in cold freshwater in the north atlantic which works to slow the rate of thermohaline circulation, which is responsible for bringing warm sea water (energy) to the poles which accelerates melting. It's a big unknown what exactly will happen, but it's possible that the damages of climate change are less than projected if the thermohaline circulation slows sufficiently to bail out the world until it can start reducing carbon emissions cost effectively.

Space-based reflectors on the scale of 600,000 square miles could cost about $800B if we could get transport costs down to $50/kg, it'd cost about $400 Trillion at the current cost.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a3719/42...

This is called Geoengineering and most proposals mimic some form of natural effect that reduces net energy absorbed by the earth. It actually is significantly cheaper to reduce the physical effects of greenhouse gas emissions than it is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions themselves. Cloud ships which turn seawater into clouds to reflect light back into space before it hits the darker ocean beneath sounds like an interesting plan, but the issue with geoengineering is it does little for ocean acidification.

I see the problem to be that any investment in greenhouse gas reduction now takes away from present consumption or other investments so that future generations can benefit, but it is generally considered that as time goes on people get more wealthy. Furthermore, it'd take significant emissions reductions commitments from the US and China in an international climate agreement to make any progress, while countries like Maldives, Turkey, etc benefit greatly.

Basically the incentives arent necessarily aligned because not all countries will be impacted the same by climate damages. Although, economists consider climate damages to be externalities which are market failures that cause economic inefficiency. I believe that with the right carbon tax, unpaid externalities can be resolved by correcting the price of energy such that the future damages are accounted for. The issue again is no nation can agree to anything on an international scale and steps to decarbonizing must start from the bottom up.

Interesting to see this posted as I'm taking algorithms this semester and the homework due in 2 weeks has a LIS question.

I accidentally implemented the longest common subsequence that runs in linear space[1] and it actually worked as a drop in replacement for LIS, for my particular question.

[1] http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/323/Syllabus/Dyn...

Rochester Institute of Technology CS curriculum breaks up theory courses into 2:

Intro to CS Theory Intro to Algorithms

Both combined I'd say are a good base for technical interviews, but not sufficient.